Digitally Dysfunctional Finds Unexpected Fans Among Gen Z

Randolph Peacock’s Digitally Dysfunctional: An Analog Description of Our Digital Dystopia was expected to strike a chord with analog nostalgics and tech-weary Gen Xers but in a surprising twist, it’s Gen Z readers who are latching onto the book with unexpected enthusiasm.

Despite being the first generation born fully into the digital age, Gen Z is finding comfort, comedy, and oddly enough connection in Peacock’s unapologetic roast of modern phone culture. The book, a blisteringly funny collection of rants and reflections on the absurdity of life under constant connectivity, has become a quiet phenomenon on TikTok, where ironic videos quoting the author’s passages are gaining momentum.

Peacock, a former bartender with 45 years of stories soaked into the woodgrain of Toronto pubs, never expected his analog-flavored sarcasm to resonate with teens and twenty-somethings. “I figured they’d dismiss me as another cranky boomer with a Wi-Fi allergy,” he jokes. “But I’ve gotten messages from college kids saying, ‘This book feels like someone finally said what I was thinking but couldn’t express.’ That shocked me. I thought they were too deep in the scroll. Turns out, they’re more self-aware than we give them credit for — and just as exhausted by digital noise.”

Digitally Dysfunctional is now being shared in campus reading groups, anti-tech Discord servers, and even gifted as a joke-turned-conversation-starter among digital natives. What began as a sarcastic scream into the void is becoming a cross-generational talking point.

For a book that openly declares it won’t solve the problem, Digitally Dysfunctional is doing something rare in our noise-filled world: making people laugh, think, and perhaps most importantly, talk to each other again.

Now available on Amazon.

About Randolph Peacock

Born in Toronto, Canada, Randolph Peacock has spent 45 years behind the bar, mixing drinks, dodging nonsense, and quietly judging humanity from his unofficial post as bartender, therapist, and reluctant philosopher. A father, magician, and comedian, he’s made a life out of pulling rabbits from hats and punchlines from awkward silences, all while mourning the slow death of eye contact and real conversation.

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